Argh! I was SO going to write an Azkaban-themed one-shot for your challenge! But since this one-shot blows anything I could have written right out of the water, my idea sounds very pathetic right now. Boo.

Your imagery is just.agh. I want to throw mud pies at you because I am so jealous. Like this part:

The bitter salty brine of the ocean, snaking up the outer walls so far from your own prison, and wrapping itself in your senses, reappearing each time you think you've found respite.

I am so green. So green right now. It's just not fair.

If you do not channel your talent into some writing-related career, I am going to do something drastic! Like bake a dozen cookies and then throw them away! Not that anyone would want to eat them, anyway, because I always burn everything. But there you have it.

I tell you, for such a short one-shot, this packs a lot of power. Could you humor me in saying who you imagine the prisoner to be? I am curious. XD

I like how the lines start off with "The --- are many, but they are none of them --- one wishes to ---." It keeps a steady rhythm to it, and it has this hypnotic, relaxing quality to it because I can hear the crashing of the sea against rock and the loud, wailing screams and it's just...gahh.

Stop writing.

You're not allowed.

Alright. You're allowed. But put little disclaimers in your summaries that everyone who reads your stuff is going to start second-guessing their own writing and feel a sudden urge to go delete all their stories because they feel all grrr.

I LOVE YOU, JANE! (cough) DON'T EVER STOP WRITING, OR ELSE!!!

And I would do the little heart symbol thing, but it would just delete it, so pretend it's there! :D

Author's Response: PLEASE write me an Azkaban one-shot!!! I absolutely adore your work and if you do not write it, I shall be THOROUGHLY MIFFED. And I shall do something nasty. Like give Sirius and Scorp-o wet willies.

HAAA.

I do not understand your jealousy, though, because I took a lot of inspiration from your style in "Silhouettes" when writing this. :D So truly, you are jealous of YOURSELF! Ponder that with some tea for a moment.

*pondering time ensues*

As for the prisoner... at first I imagined it to be Sirius, but then it grew into something more hopeless than I ever pictured Sirius to be in Azkaban. Then it turned into a sort of nameless Death Eater, but I couldn't imagine one of them feeling quite like that. So I imagine him/her as a sort of OC - unknown to me, in fact nameless to me.

IF I CAN'T WRITE YOU CAN'T WRITE EITHER. So there. *squish* Thank you for the sweetest review I've recieved since... the one you left me on 'The Wedding'. :)